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Post Office Continue Tests With Oilers

13th February 1959
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FURTHER tests with oil engines are to be made by the Post Office before thcy decide whether tc replace all their petrol-engined vehicles by oilers. So far. 50 vans of 240-cu.-ft. and 360-cu.-ft. capacity have successfully completed trials with oil engines. and the next move will be to test 600-cu.-ft. vans.

The Post Office report that 240-cu.-ft. vans fitted with oil engines showed a 40 per cent, fuel saving over petrolengined vehicles of a similar capacity, whilst the saving on 360-cu.-ft. vans was nearly 50 per cent.

However, it is considered that tests will have to be made over a period of between 12 and 18 months before a final decision on conversions can be reached.

Disadvantages of oilers which have been noticed are vibration at tick-over speeds and slower acceleration in low gears, but neither is considered serious enough to prejudice the use of oilers by the Post Office.

Regional directors throughout the country are to make a further report on oil engines to Post Office headquarters in a year's time.

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